Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:33:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Encryption coprocessor, part 2. Message-ID: <199811092033.MAA00693@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Nov 1998 15:14:23 EST." <19981109151423.A2157@tidalwave.net>
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> All right, I've figured out what I want to do with the packets (though a
> zero-copy implementation would be faster, I doubt it's easy to do here). I'm
> going to set up a list of buffers in memory, then feed their address to the
> chip as needed...(actually, it'll be four rings, since there are 4 DMA
> channels). What I need to know now is what the best way would be to get the
> user buffers into the kernel (I'm assuming we'd be trying to send pointers
> to all four at once, then copying).
Er, this is really list management 101. For each buffer set you have:
- a free list, populated at startup
- a work queue
- a done queue
It sounds from your previous messages as though the control buffers are
actually associated with the data buffers, so you might want to unify
them.
In the write routine, assuming that you mandate atomic writes of single
packets, you do something like this:
if (uio->uio_resid != WRITE_SIZE)
return(ENOSPC);
bufp = getbuf_free();
if ((error = uiomove(bufp->data, WRITE_SIZE, uio)) != 0) {
putbuf_free(bufp);
return(error);
}
putbuf_work(bufp);
foointr();
the interurpt handler should do something like:
if (interrupt_reason & WORK_DONE) {
bufp = sc->busybuf;
putbuf_done(bufp);
}
if (device_status & CHANNEL_FREE) {
bufp = getbuf_work();
if (bufp != NULL) {
sc->busybuf = bufp;
stuff_buffer_into_device();
}
}
and the read routine should look like this:
if (uio->uio_resid != READ_SIZE)
return(ENOSPC);
bufp = getbuf_done();
if ((error = uiomove(bufp->data, READ_SIZE, uio)) != 0) {
putbuf_done(bufp); /* XXX push onto head of list */
return(error);
}
putbuf_free(bufp);
Then you just need to arrange for the getbuf_done and getbuf_free
functions to sleep if there's no buffer on the head of the queue.
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